Curly hair. Shiny shoes. Thermos Lunch Box. Lunch Money. These are some of the things that creep into Tanya Tolentino’s mental wish-list. But what she really wants is for someone to see her as more than the most intelligent, ‘weird but good’ girl in her fourth-grade class. One day, Tanya defends the wealthiest kid in town, Mike Lopez, […]

A bad breakup followed by a death in the family. Tanya Tolentino starts off her senior year in a rut. To cope, she attempts to rebuild her old band. Chris Umaga, a transfer from San Francisco, auditions to be the new keyboardist and in doing so, he starts to soften Tanya’s hardened heart. Talented, easy […]